Card Images from the Movie Monster Tarot

Movie Monster Tarot review by Sheila Hamilton

This is a Major Arcana Only deck. There are however 23 cards in it rather than the usual 22, as the artist and creator Samantha Kocsis, has included an extra card, The Universe.

The Universe card aside, the cards in this deck bear the traditional titles of the Major Arcana. Some of the images are derived from the Rider-Waite system. So far, so expected. But because this deck is devoted to movie monsters - "those phantoms and nasties that had us spilling the popcorn", to quote the booklet - the iconography is rather different. The Fool is not a nimble-footed young man with a dog at his heels; it is Frankenstein. He's just been created - he is clearly naive but also dangerously ignorant. The Magician is a man behind a table displaying the tools of his trade. Very Rider-Waite. But th... read more reviews.